Category: General
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Special Weather Statement – Heat Coming
This came across the wire this afternoon: https://ecalertme.weather.gc.ca/warning-latest_e.php?ualert_id=114 Issued at 2013-06-28 00:04 UTC by Environment Canada: Special weather statement issued for: Inland Vancouver Island, B.C. (081500) Current details: Hot weather develops on the Canada day weekend. After a sputtering start to the season, summer is about to arrive in spectacular fashion. A massive ridge of…
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Rainy week, warmer late, bent jet.
Expect the rain to continue for a bit this morning before tapering off. It will return overnight and tomorrow morning and continue through most of the day tomorrow (Wednesday). Here is Wednesday at 10AM. Still plenty of moisture around. I know Alberni Elementary has a date set for Rathtrevor tomorrow. Here’s hoping Parksville is a…
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First Day of Summer! Drier weekend than expected. Other Climate News.
As of 10:03PM last night, it is officially summer! Daylight today is one second shorter than yesterday, and tomorrow will be 6sec shorter still but no matter, its summer and hopefully that means we are on our way to sunnier days. We should dry out a bit Friday and Saturday and Sunday is now looking…
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Slave to the Jetstream. Wet Seven Days coming.
I hate to say it, but the variable, but generally pleasant, weather of the past week is going to degenerate into what looks like an onslaught of pacific storms over the next 7 days. As I mentioned on Monday, the Jetstream is sending a strong atmospheric river our way. And when that happens, generally we…
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Mixed cloudy week – the Centennial Pier – and Weekly Timelapses
We will get a bit of everything this week. The afternoon temperatures will stay reasonably warm just below or above 20C. It might feel a bit muggy in the afternoons and who knows, we might even get a thunderstorm out of it all. I am seeing a strong jet stream coming across the Pacific for…